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Download full textHarris, Joseph – 1988
Raymond William's historical analysis of the "community" and the "individual" is useful for looking critically at the notion of "discourse communities." Recent "social" theories of writing have invoked the idea of community in ways that seem at once sweeping and vague, for they fail to state the operating…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Environment, Community, Cultural Context
